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" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "
Kirk Douglas
Fear
You
Things
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" The learning process continues until the day you die. "
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" People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? "
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Me
Work
" No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. "
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Matter
Bad
" When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. "
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Looking Back
Looking
Start
" Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? "
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Wait
Now
Silent
" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "
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You
Acting
Character
" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "
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Out
Star
" You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. "
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Philosophy
" In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. "
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Fail
Order
" Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. "
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Woman
Dog
Loving
" Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright. "
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You
Say
Bright
" My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'. "
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Me
Love
Great
" I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. "
Kirk Douglas
Think
Champion
Tough
" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "
Kirk Douglas
Best
Father
Friends
" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "
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Tough
Beautiful
Too
" I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone. "
Kirk Douglas
Wife
Cell Phone
Day
" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "
Kirk Douglas
Fame
Luck
Talent
" Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. "
Kirk Douglas
Always
Yes
Done
" Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think. "
Kirk Douglas
Friends
Good
Know
" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "
Kirk Douglas
World
I Think
Much
" If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. "
Kirk Douglas
Man
Think
Thought
" I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism. "
Kirk Douglas
Judaism
You
Teach
" My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. "
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Door
Family
Food
" Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. "
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Great
Generation
Group
" I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it. "
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Some
Understand
Power
" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "
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Think
Acting
Character
" Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. "
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Fat
Virtue
Big
" What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. "
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Today
Parents
Wonder
" I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. "
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Myself
Me
Good
" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "
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Grow
Never
Kid